Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman, the Speaker of Somali’s Lower House, has rejected the calls for “indirect elections” in the country.
For months now, the talk around the country has been on the upcoming elections, which were expected to be held under the universal suffrage approach.
However, the National Independent Electoral Commission (NIEC) said the country was not ready for one-person-one-vote polls.
Consequently, a meeting of the five regional leaders of the Federal Member States, which has been taking place in Dhusamareb, recommended “politically negotiated polls.”
Speaker Abdirahman is now against these types of polls. He insists that the country must prepare for the one-person-one-vote polls as it had planned to.
Somalia has been unable to lay proper groundwork for universal suffrage polls, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, locust invasion, and floods hit the country since the start of the year.